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From: Wolf Blitzer/CNN
In: Washington
Posted: April 14, 1997

Subject: White House Says Camp David Guest List Shows Retreat Not Used For Fund-Raising

The White House says President Bill Clinton visited the retreat at Camp David, Md., only 25 times during his first four years in office and insists it was not used as a political fund-raising tool for the president's re-election campaign or for the Democratic Party.

Among the president's guests, the White House says only one, close friend and informal advisor Vernon Jordan, was a major Democratic Party fund-raiser.

Jordan, a well-known Washington lawyer, and his wife, Ann, spent the Thanksgiving holiday in 1995 with the president and his family.

In addition, according to White House deputy communications director Ann Lewis, Jordan also attended a retreat at Camp David with presidential scholars and authors in January 1995.

The White House says former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell visited Camp David in July 1994, after he was forced to resign his position but before he was sentenced to prison.

The White House describes most of the president's guests at Camp David as old friends and family. Among them is Diane Blair of Fayetteville, Ark. She teaches at the University of Arkansas and is married to Tyson Foods lawyer Jim Blair. He did not join her at Camp David.

Hollywood producers and close Clinton pals Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth Thomason also were guests of the first family at Camp David.

In January 1993, the president invited his incoming Cabinet members and senior staff to spend a few days with him at Camp David.


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